Deutsche Bank is planning to cut 1,950 jobs as part of the integration of its Postbank business, newspaper Handelsblatt reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The bank will cut about 750 jobs by 2020 in the joint headquarters of Deutsche Bank's private and corporate clients business, while another 1,200 will go by 2022 in the area of operations, which includes account services and credit settlement, the paper said. Deutsche Bank is in the process of integrating Postbank, the retail banking business once owned by the German postal service, with its own retail banking operations to save costs.

The Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee said on Sunday he was concerned that Special Counsel Robert Mueller may not be investigating President Donald Trump's ties to Deutsche Bank AG . U.S. Representative Adam Schiff announced last week a wide investigation into attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election as well as Trump's financial dealings, including "credible reports of money laundering and financial compromise" related to Trump business interests.

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Friday he was in talks with banks about their future and called reports of a merger of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank "speculation". Media reports have said Germany would want a merger of its two main banks to go through before European Parliament elections in May. Scholz said he couldn't imagine what the elections have to do with the banking sector and was speculation that he could not understand.

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Friday he was in talks with banks about their future and called reports of a merger of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank "speculation". Media reports have said Germany would want a merger of its two main banks to go through before European Parliament elections in May. Scholz said he couldn't imagine what the elections have to do with the banking sector and was speculation that he could not understand.

Two Democratic U.S. Senators - one of whom is a presidential candidate - renewed their calls on Thursday for a probe by the Senate banking committee into Deutsche Bank laundering allegations, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The letter, sent by Senators Chris Van Hollen and Elizabeth Warren to Mike Crapo, chairman of the banking committee, requested a "thorough, detailed bipartisan Committee investigation into Deutsche Bank's compliance history, to be followed by a report and hearing".

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said on Tuesday that Germany needed to play a role in international finance and banking but declined to comment specifically on Deutsche Bank. ...

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and the local units of Citigroup and Deutsche Bank cannot properly respond to criminal cartel charges because they are still waiting for the prosecutor to detail its full case, a barrister for Citi told a packed Sydney courtroom on Tuesday. Australian authorities filed criminal charges in June against the trio and six senior bankers over the sale of A$3 billion ($2.17 billion) in ANZ shares in 2015, and subsequent trading by the underwriters. Citi's barrister, Rob Ranken, said it required full details of the allegations before the bank could prepare a defense.

Standard & Poor's left its ratings on Deutsche Bank unchanged on Monday but said that raising its profitability is the biggest hurdle for Germany's largest lender. Deutsche Bank's ratings have been under pressure from major agencies such as S&P as the bank restructures under new Chief Executive Christian Sewing who took charge last April. The bank's earnings for the fourth quarter, announced on Friday, "confirm our view that management's biggest challenge is to improve profitability and bolster the bank's customer franchise", S&P said in a statement.

Deutsche Bank is in advanced talks on receiving an additional investment from Qatar as the bank seeks to improve its finances, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. Bloomberg, citing unidentified people with knowledge of the matter, said the timing and size of the investment was unclear. The investment would likely come through Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund, the report said.